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Indian Hills, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40324. It stands on Dry Run. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle.

Indian Hills within Scott County

On record in Indian Hills

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 19 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Indian Hills in 2010, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCORN HOLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Indian Hills: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Strontium, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Johnson VeinBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast ProducerBarite, Galena, Sphalerite
Nally and GibsonStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wm. Davis VeinBarium-Barite, Iron, Strontium, SulfurPast Producer1908

Every working recorded in Scott County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Georgetown0.7 miles12
Great Crossing2.1 miles12
Herdon2.2 miles12
Clabber Bottom2.4 miles12
Peak2.9 miles12
Shiff3.0 miles12
Stone Hedge Estates3.1 miles12
Lancelot Estates3.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 494962. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.